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Last Island (Official name: Isle Dernière, often misspelled as Îsle Dernière, Isle Dernier, or L'Îsle Dernière) is a barrier island and was a pleasure resort southwest of New Orleans on the south shore of Louisiana, USA. It was destroyed by the Last Island Hurricane of August 11, 1856. After the hurricane destroyed the island, it became known in the plural Isles Dernières (Last Islands) in French. The highest points were under 5 ft (1.5 m) of water. A resort hotel,the Ocean House, and several surrounding gambling establishments, including The Muggah Billiard House[1], were destroyed. Captain John Muggah's hotel, a two-story wooden structure of considerable strength, was the largest establishment on the island at the time of the storm[2]. Over 200 people perished in the storm, and the island was left void of vegetation.
Last Island was south of Dulac, Louisiana, between Lake Pelto, Caillou Bay, and the Gulf of Mexico. The island was originally approximately 25 miles[3] in length before being split in half by the storm, but today only small pieces of several smaller islands remain. As a result of the hurricane and subsequent storms, Isle Dernier was fragmented |isbn= |page= |pages=70–71 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Ey1ZAAAAMAAJ |accessdate=2009-07-15}} NOTE: The book title is incorrectly indexed in Google books
- {{cite book |title=Chita: A Memory of Last Island (1917 edition) |last=Hearn |first=Lafcadio |
- ^ http://www.coast2050.gov/reports/bia/ch2a.pdf
- ^ Lockhart, John M. "Storm Stories", The Riverside Reader, June 22, 2009, p. 4
- ^ Lockhart, John M. "Storm Stories", The Riverside Reader, June 22, 2009, p. 1